Japanese NB comments on the draft text of 10646-1 2nd Edition (WG2 N 2005) have been distributed as SC2 N 3354 dated 1999-08-31.

This paper gives the editorís proposed Disposition of Comments on each item in that document, for review, amendment as required, and decision by WG2.

The comments in SC2 N 3354 are qualified as either Editorial, Minor Technical, or Major Technical. In the editorís opinion, some of the Minor Technical comments can be regarded as Editorial. Accordingly the qualifications are shown for convenience as follows, after the comment number in the list of proposed Dispositions below.

- Editorial (E),

- Minor Technical (Mi),

- Minor Technical regarded as Editorial (Mi>E),

- Major Technical (Ma).

Editorial comments can be processed immediately for inclusion in 2nd Edition. Other comments will need to be ballotted in a Technical Corrigendum.

1 (E) Accepted. In 4.2 replace "cannot" by "does not".

2 (Mi>E) Accepted in part.

In 4.32 RC-element, after " four octet sequence" insert "(in the canonical form)".

Justification. The fact that RC-elements are used only in UCS-2 and UTF-16 does not affect their definition. The definition should not "preview" the normative statements in the standard. Clause 13.1 and Annex C clearly refer to RC-elements, and clause 13.2 does not.

Justification: The word "reserved" is correctly used e.g. "seat reservation for Mr X on an aircraft" does not mean that the seat is never used.

5 (E) Accepted in principle. At the beginning of the last paragraaph of clause 5 replace "A UCS Transformation ..." by "Another UCS Transformation ...".

6 (Mi>E) Accepted in part.

- Amend title of 6.5 from "identifiers for characters" to "Short identifiers for characters".

- In 6.5 add "short" before "identifier" wherever it does not already appear, e.g. the paragraph after para e., and in Notes 1 & 2.

Justification: A definition of "short identifier" is not needed since the term is not used outside 6.5.

7 (Mi>E) Accepted. The last sentence of 6.5 will become a Note.

Justification: Users need to know that a character has only one short identifier, worldwide, but may have an alternative name in another language (see Annex L).

8 (E) Accepted. In 6.5 para. 8 the words "CAPITAL" and "SMALL" will be written in lower case.

9 (Mi>E) Accepted. In 13, para 1 will now read:

ISO/IEC 10646 provides four alternative forms of coded representation of characters. Two of these forms are specified in this clause, and two others, UTF-16 and UTF-8, are specified in Annexes C and D respectively.

11 (Mi>E) Accepted in principle. In 16.2, after the list of sequences insert:

"or from the lists in C.5 and D.6."

12 (Ma) Not accepted.

Justification: The reason given is not correct. Identifications can occur in a protocol data element which is not part of the CC-data-element confirming to UCS, e.g. an attribute field in a file descriptor on an exchangeable CDROM.

13 (E) Accepted. In 25.2, in line 2 of "examples" replace "is" by "as".

14 (Mi) Bullets 1, 2, and 3 : WG2 to decide.

14 Bullet 4 (Mi>E) Accepted. In 25.2 reword the beginning of the last paragraph as follows:

A "unique-spelling" rule is defined as follows. According to this rule, no coded character ...